Election Law

Government websites

• Federal Election Commission The FEC was created in 1975 to administer and enforce the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA). The duties of the FEC include disclosure of campaign finance information, enforcement of limits and prohibitions on contributions, and oversight of public funding of Presidential elections.
• Voting and Elections at USA.gov
• The U.S. Electoral College from the National Archives and Records Administration
• Election Assistance Commission Established by the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA), the EAC develops guidelines to meet HAVA requirements and serves as a national clearinghouse of election administration information.
• Election Law from the Law Library of Congress

Websites/Research Guides/Reports

• Election Law @ Moritz from Moritz Law Library at Ohio State University
• Elections 2008 from the University of Michigan Library
• Presidential Election Law/Other Issues from the Jurist website at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law
• Guide to U.S. Elections and Voting from the University of Maryland Libraries
• "The 51st State: The State of Online" by Laura Gordon-Murnane for Infotoday.com's Searcher Magazine, Nov/Dec 2007
• "Election 2008 resources: Political information online, networked, and in the social world" by Lorena O'English for C&RL News, Jan. 2008, Vol. 69, No. 1

State Politics and Election Information Websites

• Electoral College Bills from the National Conference of State Legislatures
• Election Links from the National Association of Secretaries of State
• Initiative and Referendum Institute affiliated with the USC-CalTech Center for the Study of Law and Politics

News/Current Awareness

• BNA's Money and Politics Report, BNA's newsletter on issues surrounding campaign finance reform, new lobbying regulations, and government ethics.
• The Hotline National Journal's daily briefing on politics
• CNN Election Center 2008
• ElectionLine.org a project of the Pew Center on the States provides news and analysis on election reform as well as Electionline Weekly, a weekly newsletter.

Polls/Maps/Statistics

• PollingReport.com
• Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections
• Presidential Elections 1789-2000, from NationalAtlas.gov, provides maps of electoral votes won, by political party, for 54 Presidential elections

Blogroll

• The Election Blog by Rick Hasen, Loyola Law School Los Angeles
• The Equal Vote Blog
• Blogger's FAQ: Election Law from Electronic Frontier Foundation
• VoteLaw Blog
• The Skeptic's Eye Blog

Print Resources

• Election Law Journal
  Imprint: Larchmont, N.Y.: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., c2002-
  Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
  Call No.: XXKF4885.A15E44
  Also available online at http://www.liebertpub.com/publication.aspx?pub_id=101
  
• The election law primer for corporations, by Jan Witold Baran
  Imprint: Chicago, Ill.: American Bar Association, c2004
  Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
  Call No.: XXKF4886 .B37 2004
  
• The future of the voting rights act, by David L. Epstein et al. (eds.)
  Imprint: New York: Russell Sage Foundation, c2006
  Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
  Call No.: JK1924.F88 2006
  
• Guide to political campaigns in America, edited by Paul S. Herrnson ; Colton Campbell, Marni Ezra, Stephen K. Medvic, associate editors
  Imprint: Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2005
  Location: Regenstein, Bookstacks
  Call No.: JK2265 .G84 2005
  
• Guide to U.S. elections
  Imprint: Washington, D.C.: CQ, c2005
  Contents: v. 1. pt. 1. Elections in America. pt. 2. Political parties. pt. 3. Presidential elections ; Indexes -- v.2. pt. 4. Congressional elections. pt. 5. Gubernatorial elections ; Reference materials ; Selected bibliography ; Indexes.
  Location: D'Angelo Law, Reference
  Call No.: JK1967.C662 2005
  
• Law and election politics: the rules of the game, edited by Matthew J. Streb
  Imprint: Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005
  Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
  Call No.: XXKF4886 .L39 2005
  
• Election law: cases and materials, by Daniel Hays Lowenstein, Richard L. Hasen
  Imprint: Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, c2004
  Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
  Call No.: XXKF4886.A4L692 2004
  
• Capturing campaign dynamics: the national Annenberg election survey: design, method, and data, by Daniel Romer et al.
  Imprint: New York: Oxford University Press, 2004
  Location: Regenstein, Bookstacks
  Call No.: JK1968 2000b
  
• Capturing campaign effects, edited by Henry E. Brady and Richard Johnston
  Imprint: Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006
  Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
  Call No.: JK2281.C385 2006
  
• The U.S. Supreme Court and the electoral process, by David K. Ryden, editor; foreword by Lee Epstein
  Imprint: Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, c2002
  Edition: 2nd ed., rev. and updated.
  Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
  Call No.: XXKF4886.A5 U17 2002
  
• The Voting Rights Act: securing the ballot, by Richard M. Valelly, editor
  Imprint: Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, c2006
  Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
  Call No.: JK1924.V68 2006